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Come say hello at Bookstore Romance Day on Saturday, August 9th at A Seat At The Table Bookstore 🫶🏻

Join Congresswoman Crockett for our 2025 Congressional Art Competition Showcase to celebrate the talented high school artists in our district. tx30.us/artshowcase

The only states worth visiting, just made themselves known…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use. That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes. Let’s discuss 🧵

Aid funding disrupts child vaccinations almost as much as pandemic, says UN reut.rs/4jQebEj

over 100 people are rallying outside the albemarle county courthouse right now to protest the abduction of two local residents here yesterday by masked men with no warrant who claimed to be ICE agents

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

Some food bank representatives say there’s virtually no way to replace what’s lost with donations or private fundraising — the gap is too large.

What are we even doing here, people

Hi all! We have noticed some confusion about the MayDay - May 1st protests. Hopefully, this clears that up :)

3 to 5 years of experience for an entry-level job. Rounds of interviews only to get ghosted. Lengthy applications that seem to disappear into the void. For @teenvogue.com's Work in Progress column, I talked to young workers and experts about why finding a job feels so impossible right now:

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

The richest people in the world allocated unfathomable amounts of money & resources & organized a global movement to erase trans people & deny them rights instead of simply solving world hunger. I will never forgive. I will never forget.

If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

can’t spell failure without ai

Of course the Supreme Court majority was going to do this, and parents, especially those who are POC and Muslim, have no idea that they're supporting leopards who eat faces. Sigh. apnews.com/article/supr...

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

Tonight!! Open to everyone not just educators.

We don’t need billionaires. We need billionaires to pay taxes, stop taking government welfare, pay fair wages, provide healthcare, education, housing, a safety net in case we get sick. These things which they want to strip us of but don’t need themselves.

✨ Today is my pub day, nothing else matters. Today is my pub day, would love if you bought a copy. Today is my pub day, I will make space for joy. Today is my pub day, it's gonna be a great day. ✨

if the government can collect debt from student loans, it can collect unpaid taxes from billionaires

Hey folks. Just wanted to share: we are trying really, really hard to make this movement work, to adjust to the devastating changes every day, and to do so all as volunteers. We know that everyone has questions and concerns, and are more than happy to address each one of them. Our DM's are open!

It’s National Infant Immunization Week! Vaccines protect our children from serious diseases. Make sure your little one is up to date on their recommended vaccines. Schedule vaccine appointments with your health care provider or at MyTurn.ca.gov.

Faculty and staff at UC Irvine have been criminalized for exercising their freedom of speech on campus in defense of Palestinian life and dignity. They are now in the position of needing to defend themselves. Can you help? If you have $5, please join me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/defend-aca...

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

NPR reports that White House is searching for new defense secretary reut.rs/4jIUiiq

Hard to imagine more of a “pocketbook issue” than possibly getting kidnapped and sent to a torture site in a country you’ve never been to because some neo-Nazis with badges had a quota of arrests to make Retainers for lawyers are not cheap

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

Pope Francis, the first head of the Catholic Church from the Americas who became a symbol of hope and change during his papacy, died Monday at age 88. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin-American pope and the first pope from outside Europe in at least 1,000 years. to.pbs.org/3EjlyFb

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

“It is not that America lacks courage. It is just that we’ve become so cut off from one another - so atomized and isolated - that many of us feel alone. That loneliness makes us feel vulnerable and fearful.” A strike requires community. People to rely on. It seems hard now, but we WILL get there.

Nearly half of people currently detained by ICE/CBP have no criminal charges, yet some are being held in conditions that would be unacceptable in high-security prisons. Admin has eliminated oversight bodies ensured health/safety requirements are met www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I've personally heard of at least 2 people who have to sell their mobile phones in a desperate attempt to access food or meds. Bear in mind - that phone was probably the main source of any continuing income.

The world now has a plan for when the next global pandemic hits https://go.nature.com/43X27wg

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

The weaponization of “intellectual diversity” is as predictable as it is ironic.

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!